Current MA Students
The following are select geography MA degree candidates.

Grace Chun
Email: gychun@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Migration, Spaces of Sanctuary, Citizenship, Transnationalism
Advisor: Reece Jones

Jackie Dean
Email: jmd368@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Land Cover Change, GIS, Remote Sensing
Advisor: Lisa Kelley

Derek Ford
Email: djford@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Forest Pathology
Advisor: Qi Chen

Richard Frost
Email: rfrost@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Emergency Management
Advisor: Qi Chen

Sasha Helfner
Email: helfner@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Global Environmental Change, Medical Geography, Water Access & Protection, Agro-Food Systems, Natural Resource Conservation
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata, Laurel Mei-Singh

Tatsuki Kohatsu
Email: kohatsut@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Critical Tourism Studies, Militarization, Discourse and Practice of Development, the Pacific Islands, Okinawa
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad

Heidi Needham
Email: hneedham@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Ecological Climatology, Climate Change, Climate Models, Natural Resource Management, Science Education, Outreach Activities with Underrepresented Groups
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca

Liat Portner
Email: lportner@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Ecohydrology, Land Use Changes, Restoration Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Science Communication and Education
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca

Kristen Sanfilippo
Email: ksanfili@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Climate Change, Human-Environment Relationship, Climate Change Mitigation, Global Environmental Change, Earth System Modeling, Climatology, The Carbon Cycle, Biogeography
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca

Edward Serrano
Email: eos@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Mapping (trees and mountains), Remote Sensing for City Analysis, Historical Geography, Geoarchaeology
Advisor: Qi Chen

Kira Webster
Email: kiramw@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Climate Change Effects, Native Hawaiian Plant Populations, Reforestation, Island Biodiversity Conservation
Advisor: Camilo Mora

Ross Winans
Email: winansw@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Watershed Management, Natural Resource Management
Advisor: Qi Chen